Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-11
ty was called up BY Senator Douglass.

ceipts to be posted in places OF business
was called up.
Senator Stinson moved to strike out
one day and insert twenty days failure to
post the license shall constitute separ-
ate offense. Lost.
An emergency clause was edded and
the bill passed.
Senator Jarvis introduced bill to
create q new judicial district to be com
posed OF the counties of Ta-rant, Wise,
Jack and Parker, and fixing the time of
holding courts in the same.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House bill 10 require railroads to
promptly pay their employees. Passed.
House bill to provide for the charging
OF the estate OF deceased person by vir-
true OF the joint obligation of such de-
ceased person with smother. Passed.
House bill prohibiting the killing OF fish
by dynamite, etc passed TO the third
reading.
Substitute House bill amending the
corporation law was laid before the Sen
ste with Senate amendments.
An amendment 10 the committee for
bidding printing and publishing bust
ness from selling goods, wares and mer-
chandtse of 6 stationary and blank book
!
/ Senator Burney moved to strike out
! goods, wares and merchandise.
/ Senator Lane offered substitute pro-
Viding that they may sell goods, wares
and merchandise of their own nanufac-
| ture.
Senator Claiborne moved to lay all the
amendments on the tab e. Carried.
Senator Harrison moved to amend pro
vidiug that corporations may be organ
lied for the purpose of the subdivision
and sale Of land, and to erect buildings
IN cities and towns. Adopted.
Senator Camp moved 10 strike out the
words, "the accumulation and loan of
money!" but this subdivision shall not
permit Incorporation with banking or
discounting privileges. No corporation |
orgariZ ID under the laws of any other !
state or territory or of any foreign gov
ernment, for purposes other than those |
authorized By this act or by any law of |
this STATE, shall be permitted to do bust /
ness in this state. Lost.
The bill was then engrossed with |
amendments providing that corporations
may be organized for the purpose of
maintaining stock pens, slaughter and re-
irl%erating houses ard establishments for
canning meats, fruits. vegetables and fish.
House DILL to provide for more speedy
counting OF the votes at elections was
laid before the Senate.
Senator Bell moved to make the law
operate only al polling places where 200
votes ere cast instead of where 100 are
cast. Adopted.
Senator l. me moved TO make it mis-
demeanOr to refuse to act as clerk at
election when appointed by the Judge.
Lost, and the bill engrossed
Adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
The committee on lands presented g
majority report adverse to Senate bill No.
l+3, giving the University regents ex-
elusive control of the University lands.
Bills were introduced changing the
terms Of courts in various districts,
changing various occupation taxes, eX-
empting cotton and wool factories from
taxation for five years, and preventing
discrimination Oy monopolies and con-
spiracies in the cotton seed Oil business.
The House considered the occupation
tax bill. Amendments were adopted fix
ing graduated tax on money brokers
and dealers in stocks, bonds, warrants,
exchange, and all kinds OF negotiable Sc
curtties of from SIC in towns OF 1000 in
habitants up to SlG0 in the largest cities
in the state, providing that the drum
mers's tax of $50 shall not be collected in
each county drummer visits to solicit
orders. EXempting BARRIERS from the &C.
cnpatioE tax, also exempting beef mar
kets from the tax. The bill was defeated
on the vote on final passage-ayes, ~;
nays, 80.
The general land bill of the House,
coming up as the general order, and the
Senate land bill having Just been laid on
the desk of the members, Mr.. Browning
moved that the House bill lie on the
table subject 70 call, in order that the
Senate bill may be examined Carried. .
House bill Gil, detiaing and Furnishing
for pooling by railroads was considered .
The penalty is from six months to two /
years in the penitentiary and fine of
from $4,000 to $40, 900. s
An amendment was adopted, changing {
peni entiary to county jail, and the bill '
81; nays, ~. f
House bill No. &2S, requiring more spe- {
cihc reports as to railroad property and {
operation to De furnished to the Comp !
troller, passed
House bill No. 1874, amending the law f
Furnishing for Injuries to property by eX. =
!
malicious offense against property, was 9
enarossed.
The penalty is fixed at from two 70 five h
years IN the peUitennary, and the object +
s to emGrace such offenses as engine kill =
ng and others by strikers. {
House Dill No. 256, requiring railroads q
o furnish double deCked cars for sneep !,
passed. q
HnnSn 1nf
amendment to the constitution, to amend 6
he Judiciary act so as to increase the r
Judges of tie Supreme court, etc, as S.
recommended by the Texas Bar Associa- $
ion, was engrossed. n
House bill No. Sl6, requiring foreign Is
Operations doing business in this state T
o file their charters with the Secretary of O
tate under a penalty Of a fine of 500 h
gsinst the corporation and 500 ti1e and n
hirty days Imprisonment against any W
aTty acting as agent, was engrossed. ii
Senate bill No. so, requiring railroads in
0 give employees thirty days notice be al
ore disCharging them or reducing their rs
ages under penaly of right to recover Ii
lirty days wages by such employees, c.
assed. ca
House bill No. 200, allowing sill cases t0
be appealable from justices to county al
Ourcs, was defeated m
Senate bill No. PSI, creating a court of in
lree commissioners of appeals to be tn
ppointed by the Governor for two years, en-
ON April l, 1887, and to have the same til
llary as judges OF the Supreme court, was
in committee of the whole. ell
As the bill makes an appropriation, MIR. IS
.oore of Travis. moved to adopt all the so
Ill except section -, making the ap- fir,
leaving the allowance for Sc
.lartes to come IN the general appropria- Or
on bill. Adopted. TIE
The thirteenth section Mss also adnnted ~